Bert Caris 🇪🇺 🇳🇱 🌻 🇺🇦
@bertcaris.bsky.social
policy adviser (retired). Loves Japan, it’s culture and hospitality. Loyal companion of Ichimon, our white, longcoated Akita inu.
Democracy, rule of law, that we may stay worthy of our freedom, integrity, SCOTUS chief justice Robert H. Jackson.
Democracy, rule of law, that we may stay worthy of our freedom, integrity, SCOTUS chief justice Robert H. Jackson.
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Russian state media are today alleging that a Bellingcat reporter was involved in an attempt to hijack a Russian fighter plane.
We would like to make clear that Bellingcat had absolutely no involvement in the alleged activities and the accusations towards us are entirely false.
We would like to make clear that Bellingcat had absolutely no involvement in the alleged activities and the accusations towards us are entirely false.
November 11, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Russian state media are today alleging that a Bellingcat reporter was involved in an attempt to hijack a Russian fighter plane.
We would like to make clear that Bellingcat had absolutely no involvement in the alleged activities and the accusations towards us are entirely false.
We would like to make clear that Bellingcat had absolutely no involvement in the alleged activities and the accusations towards us are entirely false.
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„Das ist der südliche Rand von Pokrovsk. Dort, wo die Kolonne der Feiglinge im Nebel fuhr.
Zerstört.
Die Autos, die weiter entfernt stehen, sind heute verbrannt.
Unsere Soldaten vernichten weiterhin den Feind. Egal, wie viele es sind.“
Yulija Kyriienko
Zerstört.
Die Autos, die weiter entfernt stehen, sind heute verbrannt.
Unsere Soldaten vernichten weiterhin den Feind. Egal, wie viele es sind.“
Yulija Kyriienko
November 11, 2025 at 2:09 PM
„Das ist der südliche Rand von Pokrovsk. Dort, wo die Kolonne der Feiglinge im Nebel fuhr.
Zerstört.
Die Autos, die weiter entfernt stehen, sind heute verbrannt.
Unsere Soldaten vernichten weiterhin den Feind. Egal, wie viele es sind.“
Yulija Kyriienko
Zerstört.
Die Autos, die weiter entfernt stehen, sind heute verbrannt.
Unsere Soldaten vernichten weiterhin den Feind. Egal, wie viele es sind.“
Yulija Kyriienko
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The individual detailed in Russian media as a Bellingcat reporter has never worked for us in any capacity and we do not know who they are.
November 11, 2025 at 2:06 PM
The individual detailed in Russian media as a Bellingcat reporter has never worked for us in any capacity and we do not know who they are.
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Bellingcat has been named an undesirable organisation in Russia because of our reporting on the country dating back to the downing of MH17 in 2014 by Russian-backed forces.
We will continue to report accurately on Russia and will not be intimidated by disinformation and false accusations.
We will continue to report accurately on Russia and will not be intimidated by disinformation and false accusations.
November 11, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Bellingcat has been named an undesirable organisation in Russia because of our reporting on the country dating back to the downing of MH17 in 2014 by Russian-backed forces.
We will continue to report accurately on Russia and will not be intimidated by disinformation and false accusations.
We will continue to report accurately on Russia and will not be intimidated by disinformation and false accusations.
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⚡ Russia has faced a sweeping diplomatic setback, losing elections to several UNESCO advisory bodies and being excluded from every institution it sought to join.
Russia Loses All UNESCO Elections Amid Growing Global Isolation
The MFA reports Russia's exclusion from key UNESCO bodies as Ukraine's international allies stand firm against its aggression, emphasizing cultural heritage protection.
united24media.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:38 PM
⚡ Russia has faced a sweeping diplomatic setback, losing elections to several UNESCO advisory bodies and being excluded from every institution it sought to join.
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Rightwatch is a media project that focuses on misinformation from the far right and is a collaboration between @voxeurop.bsky.social 🇪🇺& @internazionale.it 🇮🇹 & Solomon 🇬🇷. Check it out!
RightWatch: debunking far-right disinformation
Far-right misinformation is spreading fast across Europe, twisting debates on migration, climate, gender equality, and LGBT+ rights. By fact-checking political and media claims in Italy, Greece and Fr...
voxeurop.eu
November 11, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Rightwatch is a media project that focuses on misinformation from the far right and is a collaboration between @voxeurop.bsky.social 🇪🇺& @internazionale.it 🇮🇹 & Solomon 🇬🇷. Check it out!
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The Dutch province Limburg are trying to get the panels back and want to put up a special memorial for the black soldiers, and the governor of the province (a powerless job to be clear) is gonna have a discussion with the US ambassador over it. Fingers crossed
nos.nl/artikel/2589...
nos.nl/artikel/2589...
November 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
The Dutch province Limburg are trying to get the panels back and want to put up a special memorial for the black soldiers, and the governor of the province (a powerless job to be clear) is gonna have a discussion with the US ambassador over it. Fingers crossed
nos.nl/artikel/2589...
nos.nl/artikel/2589...
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🇺🇦President Zelenskyy: Today, I’m in Kherson. It is already the third anniversary of the city’s liberation from the Russians – the occupiers fled, and we remember how the courage of our people made it happen, how Ukrainian flags returned to Kherson.
November 11, 2025 at 12:49 PM
🇺🇦President Zelenskyy: Today, I’m in Kherson. It is already the third anniversary of the city’s liberation from the Russians – the occupiers fled, and we remember how the courage of our people made it happen, how Ukrainian flags returned to Kherson.
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Replace “Dems” for “mainstream parties” and “GOP” for “far right” and you have West European politics.
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
November 11, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Replace “Dems” for “mainstream parties” and “GOP” for “far right” and you have West European politics.
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Valerij Zaloezjny, voormalig opperbevelhebber van de Oekraïense krijgsmacht, nu 🇺🇦 ambassadeur in het Verenigd Koninkrijk:
"Oekraïne vecht al elf jaar om te overleven. Toch roepen sommige westerse landen ons nog steeds op om te onderhandelen met degenen die ons kwamen vermoorden."
"Oekraïne vecht al elf jaar om te overleven. Toch roepen sommige westerse landen ons nog steeds op om te onderhandelen met degenen die ons kwamen vermoorden."
Zaluzhnyi warns that peace with Russia would mean capitulation
Ukraine’s ambassador to the United Kingdom and former commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, Valerii Zaluzhnyi, wrote in an op-ed for the New York Post that Western countries urging Kyiv to negotiate...
english.nv.ua
November 10, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Valerij Zaloezjny, voormalig opperbevelhebber van de Oekraïense krijgsmacht, nu 🇺🇦 ambassadeur in het Verenigd Koninkrijk:
"Oekraïne vecht al elf jaar om te overleven. Toch roepen sommige westerse landen ons nog steeds op om te onderhandelen met degenen die ons kwamen vermoorden."
"Oekraïne vecht al elf jaar om te overleven. Toch roepen sommige westerse landen ons nog steeds op om te onderhandelen met degenen die ons kwamen vermoorden."
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How does the US have any jurisdiction over a cemetery in another country even if it is an American cemetery...
November 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
How does the US have any jurisdiction over a cemetery in another country even if it is an American cemetery...
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Lessons from Building an Online Toolkit to Aid Open-Source Investigations niemanreports.org/osint-open-s...
Lessons from Building an Online Toolkit to Aid Open-Source Investigations - Nieman Reports
Publicly available sources can be a tool for all journalists, writes Johanna Wild, an open source researcher for Bellingcat.
niemanreports.org
November 10, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Lessons from Building an Online Toolkit to Aid Open-Source Investigations niemanreports.org/osint-open-s...
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AfD nach Steinmeier-Rede empört. -
Dabei hatte Steinmeier gar keine Partei verantwortlich gemacht.
Aber: Wem der Schuh passt, der zieht ihn sich an. www.gmx.net/magazine/pol...
Dabei hatte Steinmeier gar keine Partei verantwortlich gemacht.
Aber: Wem der Schuh passt, der zieht ihn sich an. www.gmx.net/magazine/pol...
AfD nach Steinmeier-Rede empört
Bundespräsident Steinmeier warnt in seiner Rede zum 9. November vor Demokratiefeinden.
www.gmx.net
November 10, 2025 at 7:41 PM
AfD nach Steinmeier-Rede empört. -
Dabei hatte Steinmeier gar keine Partei verantwortlich gemacht.
Aber: Wem der Schuh passt, der zieht ihn sich an. www.gmx.net/magazine/pol...
Dabei hatte Steinmeier gar keine Partei verantwortlich gemacht.
Aber: Wem der Schuh passt, der zieht ihn sich an. www.gmx.net/magazine/pol...
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🗺️ The true size of the world's countries.
👉 The widely used Mercator projection distorts their size.
👉 The widely used Mercator projection distorts their size.
November 10, 2025 at 7:09 PM
🗺️ The true size of the world's countries.
👉 The widely used Mercator projection distorts their size.
👉 The widely used Mercator projection distorts their size.
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That old metaphor about the frog and the boiling water isn’t true: If you put a frog in a pot of water and slowly raise the heat, the frog will jump out before it gets boiled to death.
The question now is whether American journalists are smarter than frogs.
My Stop the Presses newsletter.
The question now is whether American journalists are smarter than frogs.
My Stop the Presses newsletter.
How news coverage eases us into tyranny
When the media act like things are normal, they don’t reassure us – they gaslight us
www.stopthepresses.news
November 10, 2025 at 6:53 PM
That old metaphor about the frog and the boiling water isn’t true: If you put a frog in a pot of water and slowly raise the heat, the frog will jump out before it gets boiled to death.
The question now is whether American journalists are smarter than frogs.
My Stop the Presses newsletter.
The question now is whether American journalists are smarter than frogs.
My Stop the Presses newsletter.
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❗️Putin is preparing a decisive operation in the Donetsk direction, - Syrskyi
"The Russian command has sent about 150 thousand occupiers to the Pokrovsk region. Russia's goal is to surround Pokrovsk and neighboring cities from the north, south and east, block supply routes and expel civilians..."
"The Russian command has sent about 150 thousand occupiers to the Pokrovsk region. Russia's goal is to surround Pokrovsk and neighboring cities from the north, south and east, block supply routes and expel civilians..."
November 10, 2025 at 7:01 PM
❗️Putin is preparing a decisive operation in the Donetsk direction, - Syrskyi
"The Russian command has sent about 150 thousand occupiers to the Pokrovsk region. Russia's goal is to surround Pokrovsk and neighboring cities from the north, south and east, block supply routes and expel civilians..."
"The Russian command has sent about 150 thousand occupiers to the Pokrovsk region. Russia's goal is to surround Pokrovsk and neighboring cities from the north, south and east, block supply routes and expel civilians..."
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Kyiv denies Pokrovsk encirclement, 7th Rapid Response Corps releases drone strike footage; 'Gift for Putin' — Czech public raises money for 1 Flamingo missile for Ukraine, Fire Point to provide 2; Ukraine says oil depot near Simferopol hit in Russian-occupied Crimea; and more.
Ukraine war latest updates: Kyiv denies Pokrovsk encirclement, 7th Rapid Response Corps releases drone strike footage (8)
Live coverage of Russia’s war against Ukraine with breaking news and frontline updates, updated 8 times today. The Ukrainian military denied once again on Nov. 10 that Russian troops had managed to en...
kyivindependent.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Kyiv denies Pokrovsk encirclement, 7th Rapid Response Corps releases drone strike footage; 'Gift for Putin' — Czech public raises money for 1 Flamingo missile for Ukraine, Fire Point to provide 2; Ukraine says oil depot near Simferopol hit in Russian-occupied Crimea; and more.
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🛢️⚡️ Reuters: Russian oil company Lukoil has declared force majeure at its West Qurna-2 field in Iraq, one of the world's largest oil fields.
🇮🇶 Iraq stopped all payments to Lukoil after the US and the EU imposed sanctions on the company in late October.
🇮🇶 Iraq stopped all payments to Lukoil after the US and the EU imposed sanctions on the company in late October.
November 10, 2025 at 1:45 PM
🛢️⚡️ Reuters: Russian oil company Lukoil has declared force majeure at its West Qurna-2 field in Iraq, one of the world's largest oil fields.
🇮🇶 Iraq stopped all payments to Lukoil after the US and the EU imposed sanctions on the company in late October.
🇮🇶 Iraq stopped all payments to Lukoil after the US and the EU imposed sanctions on the company in late October.
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Not a movie scene—just another blackout evening in Kyiv after Russian attacks on Ukraine’s power grid.
November 10, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Not a movie scene—just another blackout evening in Kyiv after Russian attacks on Ukraine’s power grid.
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The commander of one of the units of the 218th Tank Regiment (military unit 82588 of the Russian Armed Forces) openly explained why there are so many missing soldiers in the Russian army.
November 10, 2025 at 7:18 PM
The commander of one of the units of the 218th Tank Regiment (military unit 82588 of the Russian Armed Forces) openly explained why there are so many missing soldiers in the Russian army.
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Democrats won two governorships and dominated Virginia last week, but the blue wave also set records in some lesser-known elections. Though these contests didn’t make headlines, they demonstrate that voters remain the strongest defense against extremism.
https://bit.ly/43l0w2f
https://bit.ly/43l0w2f
The Down-Ballot Votes That Sustained The National Pro-Democracy Wave
Read more here.
bit.ly
November 10, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Democrats won two governorships and dominated Virginia last week, but the blue wave also set records in some lesser-known elections. Though these contests didn’t make headlines, they demonstrate that voters remain the strongest defense against extremism.
https://bit.ly/43l0w2f
https://bit.ly/43l0w2f
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“I've been a commander for seven months now," said Vova. "In that time, about 2,000 guys have passed through my unit. Three-quarters of them are no longer here. It's only because they have given their lives that we are sitting here now, instead of the Russians."
www.cbc.ca/news/world/u...
www.cbc.ca/news/world/u...
In Donbas, Ukrainian troops fight off endless Russian assaults | CBC News
In Dobropillia, a coal-mining town just a few kilometres from the front line with Russia in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region, its few remaining inhabitants shuffle to find food or water under the const...
www.cbc.ca
November 10, 2025 at 11:16 AM
“I've been a commander for seven months now," said Vova. "In that time, about 2,000 guys have passed through my unit. Three-quarters of them are no longer here. It's only because they have given their lives that we are sitting here now, instead of the Russians."
www.cbc.ca/news/world/u...
www.cbc.ca/news/world/u...
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This is a good article on the changes in warfare brought about by drones. And the changes in the character of war happening during this war.
www.cbc.ca/news/world/u...
www.cbc.ca/news/world/u...
November 10, 2025 at 11:12 AM
This is a good article on the changes in warfare brought about by drones. And the changes in the character of war happening during this war.
www.cbc.ca/news/world/u...
www.cbc.ca/news/world/u...
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Russland hat an der litauischen Grenze nun die sowjetische Flagge gehisst. Nur, falls es irgendwer immer noch nicht verstanden hat…
November 9, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Russland hat an der litauischen Grenze nun die sowjetische Flagge gehisst. Nur, falls es irgendwer immer noch nicht verstanden hat…
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The BBC will also find out that they will never be far right enough for its critics.
Tim Davie resigns as BBC director general after accusations of ‘serious and systemic’ bias in coverage
Davie says departure is ‘my own decision’, while head of news also quits. Insiders say it ‘feels like a coup’ by broadcaster’s enemies
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:15 PM
The BBC will also find out that they will never be far right enough for its critics.